The soaring price of fuel has had a ripple effect on the cost food and other items, leaving consumers, particularly the poor and those in the low income bracket, reeling. This because the price of fuel does not only affect motorists, it affects every South African because transport and the cost of living also skyrockets.

It is in this context that this publication made a call to the government a week ago to find ways to shield the poor from the effects of high fuel prices worsened by the global price of crude oil and the conflict in Eastern Europe between Russia and Ukraine...